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Battle Reports by Dice Chatter
Recently I got a Warcry battle report in my Youtube feed, which is unusual because I think I watched one battle report when the game first came out (more than a year ago) and I think the only thing...
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I Received My Dream Tool: A Laser
This was long overdue, but as I head towards retirement (three more years) I decided it was time to stop procrastinating and to buy a dream tool that I had been pondering for a long time: a laser...
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Bondic for Filling Gaps on Miniatures
One of the great shames I hold is that I am really lazy about removing mold lines from my miniatures before painting. One of the things that simple painting methods generally do is highlight those mold...
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Bondic for Strengthening Miniatures
Have you ever wished for a material that you could use to strengthen miniatures without significantly altering it or increasing it in size? I always dreamed about a 'plastic coating' that I could put...
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Live Free or Die Rules for the AWI
Recently I purchased Little Wars TV's rules for the American War of Independence/American Revolution "Live Free or Die" (LFD). The description from their website is as follows:Live Free or Die is a...
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Clear Acrylic Bases
I had a truly horrendous mishap with a set of plastic Warhammer 40K figures that I have had for at least 20 years. I put them in a Sterlite plastic tub that – although not airtight, had a pretty good...
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Review of WoFun Miniatures
WoFun Games makes a series of miniatures where the picture of the soldier, cavalryman, artillery, etc. is printed onto a clear acrylic sheet and the figure outline is cut out using a laser cutter. They...
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Review of Ravenfeast and Ruminations on Saga
I recently played a game of Ravenfeast, a set of Viking-era skirmish rules by the guys at Little Wars TV, with my U.S. gaming buddy Shawn (not my Australian gaming buddy Shaun 😉). Although I messed up...
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Sword and Sandals (One-Hour Skirmish Wargames)
Sword and Sandals is a variant for One-Hour Skirmish Wargames, published by the author John Lambshead. (You can download this for free in the Files section of the Facebook group One Hour Skirmish...
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Modeling Skirmishers in One-Hour Wargames
Recently there have been a number of posts on the Facebook group Wargaming Neil Thomas' rules where people have noticed that their favorite troop type or army list is not available in his rules...
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Abstracting the Battlefield
Abstracting the BattlefieldRecently I noticed an increase in the number of blog and Facebook posts about '3x3' gaming. Wondering what it was I did some more research and found that it is basically...
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First Attempt at a Map Campaign
One of the hardest goals I have ever tried to achieve is to add context my games. There are plenty of ways to try and achieve that, but I think the one most gamers go for is to play scenarios in the...
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Campaign to Battlefield and Back Again
Last week I finally got enough of the preliminary work done on the Map Campaign – refer back to that post if you have not read it already – that I was ready to game out the first tactical battle....
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Map Campaign Part 2
For those that have not been following I decided to try my hand at a map campaign using the tables and ideas in The Solo Wargaming Guide (TSWG). Part one of the campaign laid out the basics, then...
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Marvel United is Truly a Co-operative Superhero Game
One of the diversions from playing the First Elopean War Map Campaign is, after a long period of self-imposed lockdown, I want to get back out and socialize in the local gaming community. That...
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Map Campaign Part 3
No, I have not given up on the map campaign, The First Elopean War. While I admit that most of my time had been spent painting of late, what stalled the campaign most was trying to organize it. To be...
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Map Campaign Part 4, Other Updates, and Eye Candy
Map CampaignThis is the continuing saga of my solo map campaign, using The Solo Wargaming Guide (TSWG) for the campaign rules and Neil Thomas'One-Hour Wargames (OHW) for the tactical rules. If you...
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Map Campaign Part 5
Wow, even though I only fought two battles on April 14th, it feels like a lot has happened. Certainly in terms of scenario and rules development it has.Campaign UpdateThe Second Battle of Firnskuppe...
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Personal News, Wargaming Thoughts, and Some Painting
Personal NewsLet's get this one out of the way. First off, I am retiring in about six weeks. I am 60 years old (and I turn 61 in October) and although I planned on retiring October 2023, circumstances...
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More Painting, More Thoughts on Downsizing, Goodbye My Friend
I have been doing a lot of painting of late, as part of my trying to figure out which scales to keep and which to shed.Wooden Warriors – French (Napoleonic) Marine of the Imperial GuardOne only my...
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